To start, I ll just note some comparisons between (what I consider to be) the parallel realms/worlds being shown to us in the video for Parabola. The altars: The cutting of flesh: The black apple and the black ball cluster: The flames: The picture frames: Parabola gives us a multi-realm view of expanding consciousness. In short, [ ]
There is some sort of solution to the situation today in the world that is above and beyond religion. I had this dream that a tsunami of people would take over the justice in the world. So there is this kind-of naive hope that there is some sort of balance gonna be.. you know all [ ]
Sweeter than the flesh of sour apples to children, The green water penetrated my pinewood hull And washed me clean of the bluish wine stains And the splashes of vomit, Carrying away both rudder and anchor. And from that time on, I bathed in the poem of the sea, Star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring [ ]
(written by Josh Homme Mario Lalli, performed by Queens of the Stone Age) Dead bull with a life on the low, I ll be massive conquistador. Gimme soul, show me the door. Metal-heavy, soft at the core. Gimme, Toro.. gimme some more. Pressurize, neutralize.. deep fried, gimme some more. Space flunky, four on the floor.. [ ]
Yet how superb, across the tumult braided, The painted rainbow s changeful life is bending, Now clearly drawn, dissolving now and faded, And evermore the showers of dew descending! Of human striving there s no symbol fuller: Consider, and tis easy comprehending — Life is not light, but the refracted color. -Faust II The color of Goehte s [ ]
Dunk you under Deep salt water Bring me, lover All your power I ll be no hell Out of your spell Over, under Die of pleasure In my dreamin You ll be drownin Hell s low, God above All drunk on my love You outta hear my long snake moan You outta see me from my throne Dunk [ ]
The primary, identifiable theme going on in Schism appears to be the alchemical concept most commonly known as squaring the circle . Hence, the interlude.. The poetry that comes from the squaring off betweenAnd the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance Squaring the circle is a subject that can t easily be summed up in [ ]
I find it in the atlas or flippin over old news check what s in the trash bag we re just another part of you we re just another part of you I beg your pardon? (beg your pardon?) beg your pardon?! WOAAAAAAAAAAH! ready me for what you are tell me what I gotta lose bout to get [ ]
Oooooo.. Weaving down a byroad, singing the song That s my kind of highroad gone wrong My my, smile at least You can t say no to the Beauty and the Beast Something in the night, something in the day Nothing is wrong but darling, something s in the way There s slaughter in the air, protest on the [ ]
I believe Beck s influence for the name of this song comes from a poem (with the same title) by Hart Crane, an American who was born at the turn of the 20th century and committed suicide when he was 32. I don t see an explicit connection between the meaning of Crane s poem and Beck s song, [ ]